ClimateWire headlines — Friday, December 20, 2013 — 8:17 AM

SPOTLIGHT

William Walker and his wife, Mi Chong, wanted to join what's seen as a solar revolution in Hawaii. Shortly after buying their Oahu home earlier this year, they plunked down $35,000 for a rooftop photovoltaic system. But the day after the PV panels went up in early October, the Walkers learned from a neighbor about a major change in the local utility's solar policy, and nearly three months later, those 18 panels are sitting dormant.

ASHRAYA NAGAR, India -- This slum on the outskirts of Bangalore is a mix of poverty and modernism. Most huts here have no attached toilet or running water, but solar panels of all sizes appear on their asbestos rooftops.